The Pale Shadows

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The Pale Shadows

Debt of record: Vitale, G. (deceased). Amount: 40 lire. Status: Unpaid. The ink dried before the nib lifted from the paper. I stared at the black blot, a small, hard eye staring back, while the light from the single kerosene lamp swung in the draft. I was Vincenzo Vitale, forty-two, and I had been a scribe in this parish for twenty years. My hands were cramped, the knuckles swollen like knotted...

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